GB2292834B - Power mosfet with overcurrent and over-temperature protection and control circuit decoupled from body diode - Google Patents

Power mosfet with overcurrent and over-temperature protection and control circuit decoupled from body diode

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GB2292834B
GB2292834B GB9517148A GB9517148A GB2292834B GB 2292834 B GB2292834 B GB 2292834B GB 9517148 A GB9517148 A GB 9517148A GB 9517148 A GB9517148 A GB 9517148A GB 2292834 B GB2292834 B GB 2292834B
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Prior art keywords
overcurrent
over
control circuit
power mosfet
body diode
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GB9517148A
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GB9517148D0 (en
GB2292834A (en
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Bruno C Nadd
Talbott M Houk
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Infineon Technologies Americas Corp
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International Rectifier Corp USA
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L29/00Semiconductor devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching and having potential barriers; Capacitors or resistors having potential barriers, e.g. a PN-junction depletion layer or carrier concentration layer; Details of semiconductor bodies or of electrodes thereof ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/66Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
    • H01L29/68Types of semiconductor device ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor controllable by only the electric current supplied, or only the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched
    • H01L29/76Unipolar devices, e.g. field effect transistors
    • H01L29/772Field effect transistors
    • H01L29/78Field effect transistors with field effect produced by an insulated gate
    • H01L29/7801DMOS transistors, i.e. MISFETs with a channel accommodating body or base region adjoining a drain drift region
    • H01L29/7802Vertical DMOS transistors, i.e. VDMOS transistors
    • H01L29/7803Vertical DMOS transistors, i.e. VDMOS transistors structurally associated with at least one other device
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/02Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers
    • H01L27/0203Particular design considerations for integrated circuits
    • H01L27/0248Particular design considerations for integrated circuits for electrical or thermal protection, e.g. electrostatic discharge [ESD] protection
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/02Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having potential barriers; including integrated passive circuit elements having potential barriers
    • H01L27/0203Particular design considerations for integrated circuits
    • H01L27/0248Particular design considerations for integrated circuits for electrical or thermal protection, e.g. electrostatic discharge [ESD] protection
    • H01L27/0251Particular design considerations for integrated circuits for electrical or thermal protection, e.g. electrostatic discharge [ESD] protection for MOS devices
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H03ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03KPULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K17/00Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking
    • H03K17/08Modifications for protecting switching circuit against overcurrent or overvoltage
    • H03K17/082Modifications for protecting switching circuit against overcurrent or overvoltage by feedback from the output to the control circuit
    • H03K17/0822Modifications for protecting switching circuit against overcurrent or overvoltage by feedback from the output to the control circuit in field-effect transistor switches
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01LSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L2924/00Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
    • H01L2924/0001Technical content checked by a classifier
    • H01L2924/0002Not covered by any one of groups H01L24/00, H01L24/00 and H01L2224/00
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H03ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03KPULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K17/00Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking
    • H03K17/08Modifications for protecting switching circuit against overcurrent or overvoltage
    • H03K2017/0806Modifications for protecting switching circuit against overcurrent or overvoltage against excessive temperature

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Condensed Matter Physics & Semiconductors (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Ceramic Engineering (AREA)
  • Metal-Oxide And Bipolar Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Integrated Circuits (AREA)
  • Semiconductor Integrated Circuits (AREA)
  • Electronic Switches (AREA)
  • Electrodes Of Semiconductors (AREA)
GB9517148A 1994-08-30 1995-08-22 Power mosfet with overcurrent and over-temperature protection and control circuit decoupled from body diode Expired - Fee Related GB2292834B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

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US08/298,383 US5550701A (en) 1994-08-30 1994-08-30 Power MOSFET with overcurrent and over-temperature protection and control circuit decoupled from body diode

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GB9517148D0 GB9517148D0 (en) 1995-10-25
GB2292834A GB2292834A (en) 1996-03-06
GB2292834B true GB2292834B (en) 1998-09-09

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US (1) US5550701A (fr)
JP (1) JP2988859B2 (fr)
DE (1) DE19530664C2 (fr)
FR (1) FR2725306A1 (fr)
GB (1) GB2292834B (fr)
IT (1) IT1282940B1 (fr)
SG (1) SG34262A1 (fr)

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SG34262A1 (en) 1996-12-06
FR2725306A1 (fr) 1996-04-05
IT1282940B1 (it) 1998-04-02
DE19530664C2 (de) 1998-10-15
US5550701A (en) 1996-08-27
ITMI951818A0 (it) 1995-08-29
GB9517148D0 (en) 1995-10-25
ITMI951818A1 (it) 1997-03-01
JP2988859B2 (ja) 1999-12-13
GB2292834A (en) 1996-03-06
JPH08102539A (ja) 1996-04-16
DE19530664A1 (de) 1996-03-07

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